A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beauti ...

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known no wonder, then, that I return the l ...

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs ...

Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.